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ULUGBEK
Ulugbek (Mukhammad Ta-ragai) was born in 1394 in Sulta-nia. His father
was great Timur's son Shahruh, his mother was Gavharshodbegim, the
grand daughter of the Naiman's padishah Kutlugkhan. Ulugbek was brought
up by his grandmother Saraimulkhanum.
When
he was 15 years old he became the ruler of Samarkand. When he was 17 he
became the ruler of Mavara-Un-Nahr and he ruled the state during 40
years. Really it was very difficult for him to combine the state
affairs with science and Ulugbek realized it only after his defeat with
Barakhan.
The great scientist liked to devote himself to science,
but he needed the throne too; if he were not a sultan amir how could he
build the expensive observatory, erect madrasahs, pay hundreds of
scientists for their work?
Ulugbek's mother Gavharshodbegim didn't
want her son to be the scientist and she said that the world was not
governed by science, by books, but only by power. Her son Ulugbek
became a great scientist, he tried to send human ideas to the stars and
to get the new knowledge from so long distance. He compiled the
catalogue of stars which is very popular even today.
When Ulugbek
was the ruler of Samarkand, it became the centre of art and science.
Mavara-un-nahr became powerful and strong. But a lot of his amirs
didn't support his policy and they tried to plunder the state treasure,
to begin the war between cousins and between the father and the son.
Historians
of Ulugbeks time wrote that Ulugbek had been beheaded by his own sons
decree at a spot some ten or twelve miles from Samarkand.
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